Chapter 30

Three days later, his clan leader, Angelo Bennett, looked Luke in the eye and assessed him.

“Are you and your brother on good terms now?”

They were seated in the bear shifter’s office, located in the heart of their forest territory, where a mansion was hidden from plain view. The sleek, modern furniture mixed with the worn-out rug and the old marble floors, indicating how old and new were getting along now—in this case, the old clan leader’s prejudiced ways no longer dominated as their new, younger clan leader nudged them in a fairer, less judgmental direction.

Luke knew that Eric had been called earlier, too, so he shrugged and tried to keep it casual.

“If you want to know if we are talking, then no. If you want to make sure that we aren’t going to punch each other in the face anymore, then we are not.”

Eric had tried. If he had tried harder, the man would have gotten more punches in and pummeled Luke to the ground, but Luke understood now that guilt had a lot to do with him being ab